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October 14, 2025
Tether Accused Of Wrongly Freezing $45M In Cryptocurrency
Stablecoin issuer Tether faces a lawsuit from a business claiming that Tether improperly froze cryptocurrency worth about $44.72 million at the behest of a local police department in Bulgaria, departing from proper procedures for an asset freeze.
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October 14, 2025
Musk Blasts Investors' Late Bid To DQ Spiro In Twitter Case
Elon Musk should be allowed to keep lead trial counsel Alex Spiro since the investors accusing the billionaire of trying to tank Twitter's stock waited until the last minute to attempt to disqualify Spiro, who has Musk's consent to his being both trial counsel and witness, Musk told a California federal judge.
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October 14, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week at the Delaware Chancery Court, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will ruled that Carlos Vasallo remains the CEO of Caribevision TV Network LLC, finding that majority investors' attempt to remove him under a defective 2019 agreement was invalid for lack of proper notice.
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October 14, 2025
Chancery Pushes Forward SaaS Co. Share Buyback Suit
A stockholder challenge to a tech company share repurchase seen as restoring, without cost, a co-founder's majority voting control won Delaware Court of Chancery fast-tracking on Tuesday, with a vice chancellor asking if the action could implicate expanded "safe harbor" protections already under state Supreme Court review.
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October 14, 2025
FINRA Fines Fla. Broker $650K For AML Compliance Issues
A Miami-headquartered brokerage will pay $650,000 to end Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims under its anti-money laundering compliance requirements over purported issues with the firm's automated tool for flagging suspicious transactions and certain transaction review lapses.
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October 10, 2025
Block Founders Face Investor Suit Over Cash App Fraud
Several executives and directors of Cash App parent company Block Inc. have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of allowing Cash App's "frictionless" sign-up system to fuel fraud, money laundering and inflated user counts while lying about compliance.
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October 10, 2025
Marex's Inflated Revenues Hurt Short Sellers, Suit Says
U.K.-based financial services company Marex Group PLC faces a proposed class action accusing the company of hurting short sellers by using off-order book transactions with its subsidiaries to improperly inflate certain key accounting metrics for its market-making segment.
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October 10, 2025
5th Circ.'s FDIC Ruling 'Cries Out' For Review, Ex-CEO Says
A former Texas bank CEO has asked the full Fifth Circuit to revive his constitutional challenge to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s in-house enforcement process, arguing that a recent panel decision to reject his case as premature "cries out" for review.
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October 10, 2025
SEC's Atkins Commits To Expanding Use Of Wells Process
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins plans to refresh the agency's Wells process of engaging with firms ahead of potential enforcement actions, saying he intends for the agency to be more forthcoming with investigative findings and provide more time and opportunities to respond to these findings.
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October 10, 2025
Cummins To Settle Investor Suit Over Emissions Scandal
Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. and an investor have reached an agreement to settle proposed class action claims that the company hurt investors by hiding emissions control devices in certain engines, for which the company has paid a record $2 billion to settle regulators' Clean Air Act claims.
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October 10, 2025
CFTC Crypto Task Force Head Returns To Akin
The former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Digital Asset Task Force has left the agency to return to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel in its white collar defense and government investigations practice.
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October 10, 2025
Wyden Urges Justices To Revive UBS Retaliation Case Again
Sen. Ron Wyden and several whistleblower organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive for a second time a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, pointing to a "deep and direct conflict" the Second Circuit has created with its latest decision in the case.
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October 10, 2025
ATyr Pharma Faces Investor Suit Over Failed Drug Trial
Rare disease biotech aTyr Pharma Inc. and its CEO have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing them of misleading the public about the efficacy of aTyr's lung disease treatment for several months before announcing its trial had not yielded favorable results.
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October 10, 2025
Justices Told SEC 'Dead Wrong' On Activist Investor Suits
An activist investor has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a series of investment funds, with the backing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are "dead wrong" to say it has no right to sue over their decision to dilute the investor's voting shares.
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October 10, 2025
'LinkedIn For Doctors' Accused In Chancery Of Inflating Data
A shareholder of a San Francisco-based networking company for healthcare workers filed a derivative suit Friday in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the CEO and directors of overstating user engagement and deceiving investors.
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October 10, 2025
SEC's Atkins Criticizes Del. As 'Uninterested' In IPO Reform
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he is "disappointed" by recent changes to Delaware law that he believes will drive up litigation costs for public companies and make the state seem "uninterested in reform" that would encourage more companies to file initial public offerings there.
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October 10, 2025
Pharma Co. Escapes Suit Over Ex-CEO's Alleged Misconduct
Exscientia PLC on Friday won dismissal of a proposed class action related to the termination of its CEO after claims emerged that he participated in inappropriate workplace relationships, with the court finding the investors failed to show that the company's statements about its culture and governance were anything more than puffery.
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October 10, 2025
Mass. AG Says Robinhood Suit Can't Halt Enforcement Action
Massachusetts regulators say Robinhood is trying to make an "end run" around their efforts to enforce the Bay State's sports betting laws, in a motion asking a judge to toss the financial services platform's lawsuit against the state.
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October 10, 2025
SEC Guidance Aims To Ease IPO Process During Shutdown
As the federal government shutdown lingers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has updated its guidance to advise companies on how they can still move forward with initial public offerings.
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October 10, 2025
Edward Jones Fined $100K For 'Unreasonable' Commissions
Edward D. Jones & Co. LP has entered into a consent order with Connecticut's banking regulator, agreeing to pay a $100,000 fine and about $73,000 in restitution for charging "unreasonable" commissions to retail brokerage customers in the state.
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October 10, 2025
Therapist Backs Out Of Plea In Patient Fund Fraud Case
A Massachusetts psychotherapist is seeking to back out of a plea deal in a case alleging he sent nearly $1 million of other people's money, more than half of it belonging to a patient, to cryptocurrency scammers.
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October 09, 2025
Bessent Touts Trump's 'Community Bank Comeback' Agenda
U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday pledged a wide-ranging regulatory push to spur a "community bank comeback," previewing plans that include easing capital rules, updating anti-money laundering standards and supporting expanded deposit insurance.
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October 09, 2025
Senate Crypto Bill Weakens State Fraud Protection, Experts Say
State regulators and legal experts are urging leaders of the Senate Banking Committee to overhaul their draft crypto market structure legislation on the grounds that the current text would weaken state power to police fraud and protect investors in crypto markets and beyond.
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October 09, 2025
Judge Scuttles CFTC Settlements In $21M Crypto Scam Case
A Florida federal judge has rejected a pair of proposed U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission settlements in a case alleging a $21 million crypto trading scheme, giving the short-staffed agency only a few days to explain why she shouldn't dismiss the allegations.
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October 09, 2025
NJ Justices Probe Insurer's Role In $12M Settlement Fight
The New Jersey Supreme Court zeroed in Thursday on how far insurers can go in reserving their rights without taking a definitive position on coverage, as Mist Pharmaceuticals LLC accused Berkley Insurance Co. of stonewalling a $12 million settlement by hiding behind ambiguity in its "capacity exclusion" clause.
Expert Analysis
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US-German M&A Hits Its Stride Despite Economic Headwinds
Against expectations, dealmakers in both the U.S. and Germany are actively seeking investment opportunities in each other's markets, with 2025 shaping up to be the strongest year in recent memory, say attorneys at White & Case.
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Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law
A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.
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How Financial Cos. Can Prep As NYDFS Cyber Changes Loom
Financial institutions supervised by the New York State Department of Financial Services can prepare for two critical cybersecurity requirements relating to multifactor authentication and asset inventories, effective Nov. 1, by conducting gap analyses and allocating resources to high-risk assets, among other steps, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Opinion
Ending Quarterly Reporting Would Erode Investor Protection
President Donald Trump recently called for an end to the long-standing practice of corporate quarterly reporting, but doing so would reduce transparency, create information asymmetries, provide more opportunities for corporate fraud and risk increased stock price volatility, while not meaningfully increasing long-term investments, say attorneys at Bleichmar Fonti.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job
After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.
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A Look At Project Crypto's Plans For Digital Asset Regulation
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins' recent announcement of Project Crypto, an agencywide initiative to modernize federal securities regulations, signals a significant shift toward a more flexible regulatory framework that would shape the future of the U.S. digital asset market, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Series
Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
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3 Trends From AI-Related Securities Class Action Dismissals
A review of recently dismissed securities class actions centering on artificial intelligence highlights courts' scrutiny of statements about AI's capabilities and independence, and sustained focus on issues that aren't AI-specific, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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CFTC, SEC Joint Statement Highlights New Unity On Crypto
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's recent joint statement announcing a cross-agency initiative enabling certain spot crypto-asset products to trade on regulated exchanges is the earliest and most visible instance of interagency cooperation on crypto regulation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Regulatory Uncertainties Loom As Fed Ends Crypto Oversight
The Federal Reserve Bank's recently ended crypto supervisory program headlines other recent federal actions from Congress, the White House and relevant agencies that may complicate financial institutions' digital-asset use and attendant compliance strategies, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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Opinion
SEC Arbitration Shift Is At Odds With Fraud Deterrence
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent statement allowing the use of mandatory arbitration by new publicly traded companies could result in higher legal costs, while removing the powerful deterrent impact of public lawsuits that have helped make the U.S. securities markets a model of transparency and fairness, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.
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Better Crypto Insurance Is Attainable Amid Regulatory Shifts
With regulatory clarity improving and insurance carriers taking an increasingly constructive approach, crypto industry participants can improve their insurance coverage and pricing if finance, legal and compliance teams take specific steps, say Walker Newell and Jacob Sawyer at Woodruff-Sawyer.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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Series
NC Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
There were several impactful changes to the financial services landscape in North Carolina in the third quarter of the year, including statutory updates, enforcement developments from Office of the Commissioner of Banks, and notable mergers, acquisitions and branch expansions, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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Despite Fraud Focus, SEC Still Targeting Technical Violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman Paul Atkins has emphasized its back-to-basics strategy, focusing on identifying and combating fraud and manipulation, but at the same time, it has continued to pursue nonfraud-based actions targeting technical rule violations, a trend that will likely continue, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.